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freetype (SSA:2007-109-01)

New x11 and/or freetype and fontconfig packages are available for Slackware 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, and -current to fix security issues in freetype. Freetype was packaged with X11 prior to Slackware version 11.0.

More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database:

Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog:+--------------------------+patches/packages/freetype-2.3.4-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz: Fixed an overflow parsing BDF fonts. For more information, see:http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1351 (* Security fix *)+--------------------------+

Where to find the new packages:+-----------------------------+

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Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)